Hannah's Air Jay Asher Analysis

These are simple, short lines but, one can perceive the tone of resignation fueled by complete belief in her thoughts as the truth; thoughts that ultimately led to her self-destruction. There is this one funny thing about humans and the world. There are many truths- too many. And no one is capable of discerning whether they are lies or not. Each one has their own beliefs and nobody is given the advantage of having seen the “ultimate truth” because what we think our truths are, are truths merely because we believe them to be so. Hannah’s “truth” was her belief that she could not be saved and that suicide was her only way. So, we are only given the right to believe that what we think is

Hannah's tapes weren't only about people and the problems they have caused her; one of the tapes is about seeking help. She really needed someone to help her out with the burden she carries every day she needed someone to give a reason to live, she needed someone there for her. She needed a friend the type of friend that would listen and tried to understand what she's been going through. Like Hannah wants help she doesn't want to end it just there she wants a reason to live so in the book she says “ I’m giving life one more chance. And this time, I’m getting help. I’m asking for help because I cannot do this alone. I’ve tried that.”(Asher 269). Therefore, Hannah is asking for help even though Clay was there for her but she pushed him away

I believe that Hanna Baker was powerless because the last couple of months while she was still alive she had no one to count on anymore. No one, not one person. Not even her parents and that is just completely heartbreaking. All she wanted was someone to pay attention to her, to actually care for her but nobody cared. All they cared for was themselves no one else and that is just selfish. All the thirteen reasons, all those people were the reasons. Hannah choose to do those cassettes to let them know why and be reasonable for it. Hannah left a note in Mrs. Bradley bag to talk about a topic. “Suicide. It’s something I’ve been thinking about” (Asher 170). One of her classmate says it’s because she wanted “attention” and didn’t wrote her name

Hannah’s story reached over 320,000 people when she shared a letter on Twitter that her mom had written to her before she passed away. While the letter was written before Hannah’s mom, Peggy, went into a risky surgery months ago, the letter still

The new girl at school is naturally shy and alone, but Hannah Baker seemed to have it easier acquiring friends and such, she is pretty popular for being the new girl but that didn't last long, people started many rumors going around but of course these rumors are not true and yet they just keep bundling up until she's reached her breaking point. No one saw it coming, no one expected it, no one noticed she was about to committed suicide. But before she committed such an event, Hannah left behind a total of seven cassette tapes and thirteen stories leading to her death, the reasons to why she was driven over the edge. Each tape was directed towards one specific person in which they caused one horrifying reason to her death. The tapes was put

I hear you Hanna. I remember how hard it is beginning on the road and you have people watching your every move. I thought Cris was very creative in the way she handled the young lady at the beginning of the Chapter 1. It is extremely hard to demonstrate classroom management strategies in addition to teaching reading strategies while you are beginning observed by twenty teachers. First, she built a reluctant relationship with the student by acknowledging that the girl had a legitimate claim about the book boring. She continued by sharing why reading the book was relevant for the student. Why did this girl need the information? What was the pay off for the student? Cris was able to think on her feet in front twenty teachers and pull that student in without escalating the problem and causing farther embarrassment. The amazing fact is that the girl, who attends an alterative high school, complied with Cris and joined the lesson. This girl acted out in front of twenty teachers without reservation. She was exceptionally daring. She could have easily gone a different way in terms of her behavior towards Cris.

The exposition of this book is 13 reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide. She leaves tapes behind for the people that have caused her to taker her life. Each side of the tape has a story on why a person has caused her to take her life. The rising action occurs when Clay revives a shoe box filled with tapes from Hannah Baker who committed suicide a couple weeks earlier. The tapes are sent to the people who gave Hannah a reason to kill herself. So Clay goes through the tapes trying to figure out why he belonged on one of these tapes. On his way through the tapes, he listens to other reasons why she killed herself. After he went through each tape, he saw those people differently.

Clay Jensen, a junior receives a box in the mail containing seven double-sided cassette tapes used by Hannah Baker, a girl who recently committed suicide at their high school. Each of the tapes contains the thirteen reasons as to why she killed herself and the people who are responsible for those reasons along with it. The tapes she made are a scavenger hunt leading to places that are significant to her story and passed on from person to person. Clay, the narrator of the story follows the tapes to the significant places that coincided with her death and realizes how Hannah was trying to show the people on the tapes the impact they made on her life resulting in her death. As Clay reaches the end of the tapes, he experiences firsthand Hannah’s

Hanna’s illiteracy withdrew her from integrating within society and kept it a big secret to not be ridiculed. She could not be herself in many situations which, again, distanced herself from society. Michael and her even got in an unnecessary argument because she misinterpreted the meaning of the note Michael gave her as he didn’t know she was illiterate. Furthermore, her relationship with Michael also did not seem to bother her very much. As the older one in the relationship, it should have been Hanna’s responsibility to not allow it. However, Hanna did not seem to care and shows her negligence towards traditional social morals. By her killing herself at the end, it sort of represented her cutting herself off from the world. Once her secret was revealed and she finally learned how to write, it included her within a part of society which she no longer wanted to be part of and killing herself ridded her of

Another reason why she probably wanted only certain people to know about these tapes is because she wanted to get some amusement out of it. Hannah was saying in her first tape. “I’m not saying which tape brings you into the story. But fear not, if you received this lovely little box, your name will pop up . . .I promise (Asher, 7).

Hannah’s problem and the problem of the book was Hannah being bullied. Her solution took a long time and she was never really sure until the end of the problems. She never had this thought until an event that triggered her to think this. She just went along with all the bullying and all the rumors spread. She didn’t want to kill herself in a painful way.

If Hannah would have truly opened up to Clay and discussed the difficulties she was having, she could have escaped her dark temptation to commit suicide. Staying with Clay could have also allowed Hannah to avoid future traumatizing events. After forcing Clay to leave her alone, Hannah had witnessed a tragic event that she believed she could have deterred from happening. However, she did not stop it which left a heavy burden of the feeling of responsibility. The tragic event she had witnessed at this party was her old friend Jessica being raped.

When conducting the interview, I realized that a rough childhood did not necessarily create Hannah’s sexuality, but rather a feeling of loneliness. As we spoke, she told me about how her parents had divorced when she was young and changed into people that did not put her, nor her sister, first. Their father was an abusive alcoholic and when I pressed her for why this might be the reason she had a negative view of men, she agreed that his actions played a role. However, her mother was no better, after the divorce she remarried another man and essentially left her children to move out of state. Her sexuality was not shaped by either parent, but her kinship ties with them were severed at a young age; creating a feeling of abandonment. She currently

“It was never a lost poem, Ryan. And you never found it, so it did not belong in your collection” (Asher). Hannah trusted Ryan to see the poem she wrote not knowing he would take it and put it on the school paper she didn't trust him after that and felt horrible about what everyone was saying about her poem she made. The main cause of Hannah's alienation is having her friends stab her in the back betray her and people making fun of

Hannah experienced various forms of bullying throughout the novel. Some were miniscule acts of cruelty, primarily meant